Introduction The Shadow of Seán Angry Young Men – Class Injuries and Masculinity From Rocking the Cradle to Rocking the System – Writing Working-Class Women Industry and the City – Workers in Struggle Prison Stories – Writing Dublin at its Limits Return of the Oppressed – Sexual Repression, Culture and Class Revising the Revolution: Roddy Doyle’s A Star Called Henry , Historiography, Politics and Proletarian Consciousness Conclusion Bibliography Index

MICHAEL PIERSE is a Communications teacher at Coláiste Íde CFE in Finglas, Dublin, Ireland. He is a former editor of the regional Cavan and Monaghan Echo newspaper group, and completed his Ph D in English at Trinity College Dublin. He has published academic work on Flann O’Brien and Dermot Bolger, as well as many articles on social issues and current affairs.